Beyond the Door of No Return Paperback / softback
by David Diop
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From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century SenegalParis, 1806.
Michel Adanson is dying. The last word to escape his lips is a woman's name: Maram.
Who was she? Why, in the course of his long life, has he never spoken of her before?As Adanson's daughter sorts through his things, she discovers a notebook.
It reveals a secret history both fantastical and terrible, of his time as a young botanist travelling in Senegal.
How Adanson first heard of the 'revenant': a young woman of noble birth, abducted and sold into slavery across the seas, who then did the impossible-she came back, to live in hiding.
How he became obsessed with finding her, embarking on an odyssey that would lead to danger and destruction.
How a man who longed to solve the mysteries of nature instead found himself faced with the uncontrollable impulses of the human heart. Tragic and tender, alive with feeling, this is a story of adventure, revenge and impossible desires, one which subverts our every expectation about who we are and who we love.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Pushkin Press
- Publication Date:29/08/2024
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- ISBN:9781782278412
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Coming Soon
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Pushkin Press
- Publication Date:29/08/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781782278412